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A New Era of Acolytes
Our
Trinity Kids have a long tradition of serving as Acolytes. We are
proud of them, and we're not surprised when visitors from other parishes
ask us how our Trinity Kids become such proficient Acolytes -- and why
they love doing it so much!
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Part of it is
long-standing tradition of our young people serving as acolytes. Click on the photo
above to see it full sized -- it's some Trinity acolytes way back in the
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We've
certainly got the gear -- and there's another set of
vestments as well! |
You'll see lots more
of our acolytes today on this page, all the way from the 2001 Triduum Sacrum and Easter Sunday
to our New Era of Acolytes -- the present time.
But first, how
do Trinity Kids
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Here's where it starts:
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Whenever we can, we show even the
youngest that they are part of our Worship. Here, a Minister of
Communion gets some assistance with the Advent Candles from a future
Trinity acolyte. Pretty much all our acolytes start out this way. Here's a Sunday School student extinguishing the
candles in September 2009:

And,
here is a future acolyte extinguishing the candles with assistance in
November 2009 (click on either of these to see a larger image):
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Soon our acolytes are participating fully in our worship services.
Here are some recent photos of the
New Era of Trinity Acolytes in action. |
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Click on the photo
above to see some Trinity acolytes in October, 2006. |

Click on the photo
above to see a new Crucifer, on November 8, 2009
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Here, Pastor Heidi instructs an
acolyte in supporting the Ministers of Communion by providing them with
sanctified wine |

A new
Lexifer during the recessional
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serve at the special services of the Church year....
Acolyte holds the Liturgy of Baptism from
which the Priest is reading during an adult baptism in November 2009 |

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Pastor Heidi looks on approvingly as
another new acolyte practices for her debut on Advent I, 2009 |

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Acolytes receive ongoing coaching
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Labor Day Sunday, 2006:
some new acolytes made their debut

Senior Warden Linda Lloyd and
Minister of Communion Sue Kozlowski instructing |

Carrying the Gospel book |

Learning to place the torches |

More practice with the torch |

Sue checking with the torchbearers |

Some last minute coaching |

All set to go! |
Click on any of
these thumbnails to see a much larger version of the picture.
to see this team in action when we
were visited by the Choir of Trinity Church, Wall Street! |
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Lighting the candles on the Altar, January 2010
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A new acolyte team
made its debut on January 31, 2010 |
Commissioning of the Acolytes
Once the new acolytes have been
trained and have
demonstrated that they both can handle the responsibility of serving at
the Altar and have a real interest in continuing as acolytes, we
formally commission them using the ceremony from the Book of
Occasional Services
Here are two pictures from the
commissioning held October 15, 2006, with the Rt. Rev. Cyril Wismar
presiding, and with Senior Warden (and Minister of Communion) Linda
Lloyd presenting the candidates.
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Candidates,
seen before the Commissioning, with Bishop Wismar and Senior
Warden Lloyd |

Acolytes,
following the Commissioning, show their new Crosses to the
congregation |
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Click on the picture below to
see an acolyte team in 2005, while
preparing to serve at a Baptism...
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again, this time on Palm Sunday 2003
(shown with their proud mom!)
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Back in 2000, an
acolyte team leaves Walker Hall to begin the procession
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Here is one of our acolytes serving
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processional crucifer for the Maundy Thursday service. |
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...and,
the acolyte's role at the Great Vigil of Easter is particularly
important because the acolyte lights the candles of the parishioners for
the Great Procession |
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| Pentecost,
too!!
(You're right!! You HAVE
seen this acolyte team in action before!! -- they were the acolyte team for Maundy
Thursday earlier in 2000! But for Pentecost, the acolytes wear
red robes at Trinity.) |
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our acolytes get to do when the Bishop makes his annual visitation:
one gets to serve as "Bishop's Chaplain". In the photos on
the right, you can see the Bishop's Chaplains from Bishop Ramos' visit in
2001, Bishop Curry's visit in 2003 (groundbreaking for our addition), and
Bishop Ahrens' visit for Pastor Heidi's installation in 2010.
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| It may look easy,
but our acolytes have ongoing training, as well as on-the-job training, along with the Ministers of
Communion. Here are some photos from a recent training
session. (click on any picture to see
it full-sized) |
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We invite you
to
to see lots of
pictures from the acolyte
training session held in October 2006.
Our secret? Being an acolyte at Trinity is a combination of
training and practice. |
Here's an
acolyte in 2004 receiving a quick briefing about the details of
the service she'll soon be serving in.
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| As long as Acolytes carry
candles, there WILL be candle wax to peel... |
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| ...and even though being an acolyte
is hard work sometimes, it definitely is an experience to remember.... |
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...and it's fun, too! Here's one
of our acolytes before our Shrove Tuesday Evensong (and pancake supper!) (note
the Mardi Gras beads)
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| Kids sometimes ask: "Is being an
acolyte at Trinity something I could do?"
The answer is that if one of
our young people wishes to learn to be an acolyte, we do all we can to encourage
him or her!
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return to our main Trinity Kids page...
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